Analysis: What Will the Outcome of the US Election Mean for the American Left?
Micah Uetricht
With the US election looming, Micah Uetricht considers how a Biden or Trump presidency would impact the American left.
Opinion: Big Banks Are Holding the Global South to Ransom. Here’s How We Stop Them
Daniel Willis
Covid-19 has made the colonial debt trap even more dangerous for public health in the Global South. It’s time to demand genuine debt cancellation, writes Daniel Willis.
Opinion: Hospitality Workers Aren’t Cops
Liv Wynter
As parts of the country implement stricter coronavirus restrictions, hospitality workers will once again be forced to police their workplaces at an ever increasing personal and professional cost, writes Liv Wynter.
Novara Live: Fighting on Two Fronts
As the coronavirus spirals out of control, Johnson is distracted by two wars of his own making: One with the north of England, the other with the EU. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss a chaotic 48 hours in British politics, and speak to the leader of Preston council, which has just been put into […]
Novara FM: After Barbarism: Rosa Luxemburg’s Revolutionary Life
James Butler is joined by Dana Mills, author of a new critical biography of Rosa Luxemburg, to explore Red Rosa's life, thought and many legacies.
Report: Keir Starmer Has Launched an Unprecedented Crackdown on Rebel MPs
Rivkah Brown and Aaron Bastani
As dissent mounts on Labour’s front and backbenches, Keir Starmer is fast-tracking disciplinary action against rebel MPs. Many see it as an attempt to cow the left. Rivkah Brown and Aaron Bastani report.
Opinion: What’s the Value of a Whale?
Adrienne Buller
The natural world, some claim, could be saved from destruction if only we established its monetary worth. In the first piece of a new series on isolation, connection and environmental breakdown, Adrienne Buller argues it’s time to free nature from finance.
Analysis: What Would Jesus Do? Cancel the Rent
Francis Brewer
The UK is facing a massive, and avoidable, debt crisis. Throughout history, the cancellation of debts has been used as a safety valve against social and economic collapse - and now's the time to reopen it. If it’s good enough for Christ, argues writer and activist Francis Brewer, it’s good enough for us.
Opinion: The House of Lords is a National Embarrassment – and the Joke is on Us
Aaron Bastani
With the latest round of party apparatchiks sworn into the House of Lords, our political system is becoming more and more inflected by patronage and nepotism. The Lords is a place for political parties, not democracy, argues Aaron Bastani - in fact that, alas, is its point.
Novara Live: Circuit Breaker
Labour and SAGE are pushing for a circuit breaker lockdown to curtail the spread of Covid-19. But what would a “circuit breaker” really achieve? We ask Professor Karl Friston of Independent SAGE. Plus: Everything that’s wrong with the test and trace system, Micah Uetricht on Trump returning to the campaign trail, and a correction from […]
Report: The Co-op Network Giving Communities the Tools to Feed Themselves
Sophie K Rosa
Set up last year with the goal of having 'a food co-op on every street in every town', the Cooperation Town network is quickly growing. Sophie K Rosa finds out more.
Interview: Coronavirus: Is This the End of Free Market Capitalism?
While it has already led to more than one million deaths, the consequences of Covid-19 go beyond just public health with 2020 experiencing the sharpest economic downturn in history. Of course much of that was intentional, with demobilisation seen as necessary to control the virus, but what are the longer term economic impacts? Will some […]
Opinion: Mental Healthcare May Never Recover From Coronavirus
Sian Bradley
Despite a backlog of cases, the government still doesn’t have a plan for helping the already overstretched mental health sector cope with the strain brought on by Covid-19. This needs to change or the impact will be felt for years to come, argues Sian Bradley.
Novara Live: One Virus, Two Englands
After a weekend of wrangling, Johnson has announced a three tier lockdown. Does this pandemic policy punish the North for Westminster failures? Plus, John Ashton on whether Merseyside was right to accept the highest lockdown restrictions and former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell on why he believes it’s time for the prime minister to be replaced. […]
Novara Live: Sunak’s Screeching U-Turn
Rishi Sunak has annnounced an extension to the furlough and, once again, the realities of covid have forced the government into another screeching U-turn. Do the Tories still lack a strategy for dealing with the virus? Plus: Trump’s bizarre twitter vids and Number 10’s new spokesperson. With Michael Walker, Dalia Gebrial and James Meadway.
Novara FM: ‘Tired From the Heart’: Voices From the Care Sector
Care work faces a constant struggle for recognition, leaving some workers 'tired from the heart'. What would it mean to advance an alternative vision of the sector? Sophie K Rosa, Craig Gent and James Butler find out.
Report: Rachel Reeves MP Accused of Misusing Members’ Data in Attempt to Influence Labour Party Democracy
Rivkah Brown
Leeds West MP Rachel Reeves contacted Labour members encouraging them to elect her preferred slate to the party's national executive committee. While Labour says it found no evidence of a data breach, some members dispute the party's explanation, while senior Labour figures say the incident is indicative of a worrying resurgence in factional organising. Rivkah Brown reports.
Opinion: Trump Thinks He Can Use His Coronavirus Diagnosis to His Advantage. He Can’t
Micah Uetricht
Trump's attempt to spin his coronavirus diagnosis to his advantage isn't working. Micah Uetricht explains why the president's illness is the worst-case scenario for him.